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Headright System 1618
• Introduced by the Virginia Stock Company to lure settlers to Jamestown
• System applied to any person who paid for their own or another's passage to Virginia- would receive 50 acres of land
• Land grants were initially called “plantations”
Q: How do you think this would affect immigration? (talk with the person next to you)
Fantasies of the New World
• Playwrights, poets, adventurers• Many had never seen personally the New
World• Turned reports into fantasies of “promised
land”• Told tales of fair climate, friendly natives, rich
harvests, etc.
The Beautiful New World
• 1605 play in London depicting Native children who wore rubies and diamonds in their coats and caps
• 1606 English poet Michael Drayton called Virginia “that delicious land” rich in soil with fantastic harvests
• 1607 Virginia Company translates into advertisements
Joint Stock Advertisement
Q: How did Joint Stock Companies take advantage of the positive publicity being printed about life in the colonies?
Indentured Servants• From England • Hired to work plantations• Promised passage to North America as well as
food and shelter upon arrival• Exchanged for a limited time of servitude• Usually 4-7 years• Lower classes of English society
House of Burgesses
• First legislature of elected representatives in the English colonies (Democratic Gov)
• Established to encourage settlement in Virginia
• Nathaniel Bacon was a representative elected to the House of Burgesses in 1676…
Q: How democratic was it? Who do you think was allowed to vote? Who was not?
Bacons Rebellion 1676
• About 1,000 Virginians broke out of control led by Bacon
• Many of the rebels were frontiersmen in search of arable land
• Resented Governor William Berkeley’s friendly policies towards the Natives
Q: What is one possible reason why the Governor and the Natives had a positive relationship?
Bacons Rebellion 1676
• Violence broke out when Berkeley refused to retaliate for a series of brutal Native attacks on the frontier settlements
• Bacon and his followers violently attacked Natives
• Rebels chase Berkeley out and torch buildings in Jamestown
Q: How do you think that the average settlers in Jamestown felt following Bacons Rebellion?
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